West New York commissioners approve surveillance cameras in streets

As part of an effort to improve public safety, commissioners have approved a contract to install security cameras in town.

The contract with PackeTalk LLC, which is based in Lyndhurst, to provide wireless security surveillance systems in West New York will not exceed $31,000, according to a resolution adopted last month.

The company also services Guttenberg and North Bergen, and its work is "head over heels above anyone else," Police Director Michael Indri said at the commissioner meeting.

Security cameras, he added, are a "great deterrent" to crime.

"These high-end cameras can get a guy's license plate from three blocks away," Indri said.

Cameras installed at 59th and Jefferson Streets are ready to be activated, he said.

Other spots under consideration for cameras are 56th Street and Palisade Avenue and 55th Street and Madison Avenue, officials said, noting that new developments in town will be required to have surveillance cameras.